#15 Uday Kotak

India's first billionaire banker started out with small finance firm in 1985.

India's first billionaire banker started out with small finance firm in 1985. Scaled it up to full-fledged bank after snagging banking license in 2003. Today he owns 46% of Kotak Mahindra Bank, so named because of early backing from industrialist Anand Mahindra (No. 68). Bank, which has over 320 branches and 2.7 million customers, has made FORBES ASIA's Fabulous 50 list 2 years in a row.

He used to play cricket until he got seriously injured by a cricket ball while in college